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May 15, 2007; 104 (20)
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FROM THE COVER
Living optical fibers
Rhomboid protease gating
Costa Rica's vanishing amphibians
DNA mutation showers
Nav1.8 channel blocker inhibits pain
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Raquel L. Lieberman
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Michael S. Wolfe
From rhomboid function to structure and back again
PNAS
2007
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Commentary
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David B. Wake
Climate change implicated in amphibian and lizard declines
PNAS
2007
104
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8202
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May 8, 2007
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Commentary
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John W. Drake
Mutations in clusters and showers
PNAS
2007
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May 10, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0703089104
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Commentary
:
Birgit T. Priest
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Gregory J. Kaczorowski
Subtype-selective sodium channel blockers promise a new era of pain research
PNAS
2007
104
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Physical Sciences
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Joseph W. F. Robertson
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Claudio G. Rodrigues
,
Vincent M. Stanford
,
Kenneth A. Rubinson
,
Oleg V. Krasilnikov
,
and
John J. Kasianowicz
Single-molecule mass spectrometry in solution using a solitary nanopore
PNAS
2007
104
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8207
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8211
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May 9, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0611085104
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences
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Hongjun Liang
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Gregg Whited
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Chi Nguyen
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and
Galen D. Stucky
The directed cooperative assembly of proteorhodopsin into 2D and 3D polarized arrays
PNAS
2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702336104
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Chemistry
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
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Xing Chen
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Andras Kis
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A. Zettl
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and
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
A cell nanoinjector based on carbon nanotubes
PNAS
2007
104
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8222
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May 7, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700567104
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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David S. Dandy
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Peng Wu
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David W. Grainger
Array feature size influences nucleic acid surface capture in DNA microarrays
PNAS
2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0606054104
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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V. B. Shenoy
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D. T. Tambe
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A. Prasad
,
and
J. A. Theriot
A kinematic description of the trajectories of Listeria monocytogenes propelled by actin comet tails
PNAS
2007
104
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8234
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702454104
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Social Sciences - Psychology
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Liane Young
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Fiery Cushman
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Marc Hauser
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and
Rebecca Saxe
The neural basis of the interaction between theory of mind and moral judgment
PNAS
2007
104
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May 7, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0701408104
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Social Sciences - Psychology
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Andrew C. Connolly
,
Lila R. Gleitman
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and
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
Effect of congenital blindness on the semantic representation of some everyday concepts
PNAS
2007
104
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May 2, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702812104
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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience
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Vincent A. Billock
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Brian H. Tsou
Neural interactions between flicker-induced self-organized visual hallucinations and physical stimuli
PNAS
2007
104
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8495
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April 30, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0610813104
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences
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Ki Jun Jeong
,
Min Jeong Seo
,
Brent L. Iverson
,
and
George Georgiou
APEx 2-hybrid, a quantitative protein–protein interaction assay for antibody discovery and engineering
PNAS
2007
104
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May 9, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702650104
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences
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William W. Ja
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Gil B. Carvalho
,
Elizabeth M. Mak
,
Noelle N. de la Rosa
,
Annie Y. Fang
,
Jonathan C. Liong
,
Ted Brummel
,
and
Seymour Benzer
Prandiology of Drosophila and the CAFE assay
PNAS
2007
104
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8256
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May 9, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702726104
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Biochemistry
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Rosanna P. Baker
,
Keith Young
,
Liang Feng
,
Yigong Shi
,
and
Sinisa Urban
From the Cover: Enzymatic analysis of a rhomboid intramembrane protease implicates transmembrane helix 5 as the lateral substrate gate
PNAS
2007
104
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8262
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April 26, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700814104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
:
Liyan Zhang
,
Yoko Sato
,
Tara Hessa
,
Gunnar von Heijne
,
Jong-Kook Lee
,
Itsuo Kodama
,
Masao Sakaguchi
,
and
Nobuyuki Uozumi
Contribution of hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions to the membrane integration of the Shaker K + channel voltage sensor domain
PNAS
2007
104
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8268
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May 8, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0611007104
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Amy D. Brideau-Andersen
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Xiaojian Huang
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Siu-Chi Chang Sun
,
Teddy T. Chen
,
Diane Stark
,
Ian J. Sas
,
Linda Zadik
,
Glenn N. Dawes
,
Douglas R. Guptill
,
Robert McCord
,
Sridhar Govindarajan
,
Ajoy Roy
,
Shumin Yang
,
Judy Gao
,
Yong Hong Chen
,
Niels Jørgen Ø. Skartved
,
Annette K. Pedersen
,
David Lin
,
Christopher P. Locher
,
Indrani Rebbapragada
,
Anne Dam Jensen
,
Steven H. Bass
,
Torben L. Straight Nissen
,
Sridhar Viswanathan
,
Graham R. Foster
,
Julian A. Symons
,
and
Phillip A. Patten
Directed evolution of gene-shuffled IFN-α molecules with activity profiles tailored for treatment of chronic viral diseases
PNAS
2007
104
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0609001104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Erin K. Willert
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Richard Fitzpatrick
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Margaret A. Phillips
Allosteric regulation of an essential trypanosome polyamine biosynthetic enzyme by a catalytically dead homolog
PNAS
2007
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May 7, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0701111104
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Joseph W. F. Robertson
,
Claudio G. Rodrigues
,
Vincent M. Stanford
,
Kenneth A. Rubinson
,
Oleg V. Krasilnikov
,
and
John J. Kasianowicz
Single-molecule mass spectrometry in solution using a solitary nanopore
PNAS
2007
104
:
8207
-
8211
;
published ahead of print
May 9, 2007
,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0611085104
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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V. B. Shenoy
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D. T. Tambe
,
A. Prasad
,
and
J. A. Theriot
A kinematic description of the trajectories of Listeria monocytogenes propelled by actin comet tails
PNAS
2007
104
:
8229
-
8234
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published ahead of print
May 7, 2007
,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0702454104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Alexandre Saez
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Marion Ghibaudo
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Axel Buguin
,
Pascal Silberzan
,
and
Benoît Ladoux
Rigidity-driven growth and migration of epithelial cells on microstructured anisotropic substrates
PNAS
2007
104
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8286
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May 8, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702259104
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Kristian Franze
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Jens Grosche
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Serguei N. Skatchkov
,
Stefan Schinkinger
,
Christian Foja
,
Detlev Schild
,
Ortrud Uckermann
,
Kort Travis
,
Andreas Reichenbach
,
and
Jochen Guck
From the Cover: Müller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina
PNAS
2007
104
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8292
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May 7, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0611180104
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Yoshitaka Bessho
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Rie Shibata
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Shun-ichi Sekine
,
Kazutaka Murayama
,
Kyoko Higashijima
,
Chie Hori-Takemoto
,
Mikako Shirouzu
,
Seiki Kuramitsu
,
and
Shigeyuki Yokoyama
Structural basis for functional mimicry of long-variable-arm tRNA by transfer-messenger RNA
PNAS
2007
104
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8298
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700402104
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Mark I. R. Petalcorin
,
Vitold E. Galkin
,
Xiong Yu
,
Edward H. Egelman
,
and
Simon J. Boulton
Stabilization of RAD-51–DNA filaments via an interaction domain in Caenorhabditis elegans BRCA2
PNAS
2007
104
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May 2, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702805104
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Yusuke Sato
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Shuya Fukai
,
Ryuichiro Ishitani
,
and
Osamu Nureki
Crystal structure of the Sec4p·Sec2p complex in the nucleotide exchanging intermediate state
PNAS
2007
104
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0701550104
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Vincent J. Hilser
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E. Brad Thompson
Intrinsic disorder as a mechanism to optimize allosteric coupling in proteins
PNAS
2007
104
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8315
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May 9, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700329104
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Zvi Hayouka
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Joseph Rosenbluh
,
Aviad Levin
,
Shoshana Loya
,
Mario Lebendiker
,
Dmitry Veprintsev
,
Moshe Kotler
,
Amnon Hizi
,
Abraham Loyter
,
and
Assaf Friedler
Inhibiting HIV-1 integrase by shifting its oligomerization equilibrium
PNAS
2007
104
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May 8, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700781104
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Xing Chen
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Andras Kis
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A. Zettl
,
and
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
A cell nanoinjector based on carbon nanotubes
PNAS
2007
104
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8218
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8222
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May 7, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700567104
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Mauricio A. Retamal
,
Kurt A. Schalper
,
Kenji F. Shoji
,
Michael V. L. Bennett
,
and
Juan C. Sáez
Opening of connexin 43 hemichannels is increased by lowering intracellular redox potential
PNAS
2007
104
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8322
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8327
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May 9, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0702456104
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Yingchun Wang
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Shi-Jian Ding
,
Wei Wang
,
Jon M. Jacobs
,
Wei-Jun Qian
,
Ronald J. Moore
,
Feng Yang
,
David G. Camp, II
,
Richard D. Smith
,
and
Richard L. Klemke
Profiling signaling polarity in chemotactic cells
PNAS
2007
104
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8328
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8333
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May 9, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0701103104
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Ole V. Gjoerup
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Jiaping Wu
,
Devin Chandler-Militello
,
Grace L. Williams
,
Jean Zhao
,
Brian Schaffhausen
,
Parmjit S. Jat
,
and
Thomas M. Roberts
Surveillance mechanism linking Bub1 loss to the p53 pathway
PNAS
2007
104
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8334
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8339
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May 8, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0703164104
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology
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Rui Pires Martins
and
Stephen A. Krawetz
Decondensing the protamine domain for transcription
PNAS
2007
104
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8345
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May 1, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0700076104
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Frédéric Chalmel
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Antoine D. Rolland
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Christa Niederhauser-Wiederkehr
,
Sanny S. W. Chung
,
Philippe Demougin
,
Alexandre Gattiker
,
James Moore
,
Jean-Jacques Patard
,
Debra J. Wolgemuth
,
Bernard Jégou
,
and
Michael Primig
The conserved transcriptome in human and rodent male gametogenesis
PNAS
2007
104
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8346
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8351
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May 2, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0701883104
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Ecology
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Steven M. Whitfield
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Kristen E. Bell
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Thomas Philippi
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Mahmood Sasa
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Federico Bolaños
,
Gerardo Chaves
,
Jay M. Savage
,
and
Maureen A. Donnelly
From the Cover: Amphibian and reptile declines over 35 years at La Selva, Costa Rica
PNAS
2007
104
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8352
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8356
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April 20, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0611256104
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Craig R. White
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Tim M. Blackburn
,
John S. Terblanche
,
Elrike Marais
,
Marc Gibernau
,
and
Steven L. Chown
Evolutionary responses of discontinuous gas exchange in insects
PNAS
2007
104
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8357
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8361
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May 7, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0608968104
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Peter J. Mumby
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Alastair R. Harborne
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Jodene Williams
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Carrie V. Kappel
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Daniel R. Brumbaugh
,
Fiorenza Micheli
,
Katherine E. Holmes
,
Craig P. Dahlgren
,
Claire B. Paris
,
and
Paul G. Blackwell
Trophic cascade facilitates coral recruitment in a marine reserve
PNAS
2007
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Peter A. Hambäck
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Keith S. Summerville
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Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
,
Jochen Krauss
,
Göran Englund
,
and
Thomas O. Crist
Habitat specialization, body size, and family identity explain lepidopteran density–area relationships in a cross-continental comparison
PNAS
2007
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Baldwyn Torto
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Drion G. Boucias
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Richard T. Arbogast
,
James H. Tumlinson
,
and
Peter E. A. Teal
Multitrophic interaction facilitates parasite–host relationship between an invasive beetle and the honey bee
PNAS
2007
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May 4, 2007
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Biological Sciences - Evolution
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Ying Yang
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Ence Yang
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Zhiqiang An
,
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Xingzhong Liu
Evolution of nematode-trapping cells of predatory fungi of the Orbiliaceae based on evidence from rRNA-encoding DNA and multiprotein sequences
PNAS
2007
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Biological Sciences - Evolution
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Giorgio Bernardi
The neoselectionist theory of genome evolution
PNAS
2007
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8390
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Elena Casacuberta
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Fernando Azorín Marín
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Mary-Lou Pardue
Intracellular targeting of telomeric retrotransposon Gag proteins of distantly related Drosophila species
PNAS
2007
104
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